Quotes

[Ricardo]

Morally corrupt individuals do not understand those with character and they never will.

anonymous @ youboob

 

[Voyageur]

Morally corrupt individuals do not understand those with character and they never will.

anonymous @ youboob

Yes, nor do they understand those with honor and they never will.

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
― C. S. Lewis

 

[Tristan]

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?
~L. Frank Baum

 

[neonix]

It Is the Customary Fate of New Truths to Begin as Heresies and to End as Superstitions
It Is the Customary Fate of New Truths to Begin as Heresies and to End as Superstitions – Quote Investigator®

the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley during a lecture delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Today Huxley is best known as “Darwin’s bulldog” because of his vigorous defense of the theory of evolution. Huxley’s speech was printed in the journal “Nature” in 1880. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:[1]

History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in danger of accepting the main doctrines of the Origin of Species with as little reflection, and it may be with as little justification, as so many of our contemporaries, twenty years ago, rejected them.

 

[Cat_Sass]

a couple o' short ones:





and one more for luck...



edit: one more, couldn't resist:

I love Discworld

 

[Jones]

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.'

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.

 

[Goemon_]

"The insurance experts who investigate natural disasters all tell you that instant testimony must be taken into account, but that after three days it's worthless. There's no pressure on the public. It's only the effect of collective emotion that makes one version prevail and that everyone supports because everyone is afraid. You don't have the courage to say the opposite of your neighbours."

Thierry Meyssan

 

[neonix]

Peter Weir: You need courage and boldness to win, but also to lose. And sometimes, periods of defeat are incredibly beneficial for spiritual development, unleashing certain forces within a person, forcing them to seek the truth. I didn't understand this for a long time, because I was raised in the cult/worship of competition and victory.

Interview between Peter Weir and Barbara Hollender for "Rzeczpospolita" Daily published in Poland. I found this quote in Polish version Reader's Digest 2000/02.

 

[Glenn]

George Orwell from Nineteen Eighty-Four

It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

 

[Magnolia]

It was always the women

Heard in the video: ".......Arrogant, smug, entitled, superior, lack of depth, angry, they hate themselves, they hate everybody else, they hate the country, they hate everything...They don't have a stable family life, they don't have a child and family to care for.... Doing this [interference routine] makes them feel powerful, feel important, feel like they are needed, they feel like they're making the world a better place.....They think they know it all......(plus some get paid).......They have nothing left to look forward to but old age and being alone..."

They gave us their mind?

 

[neonix]

"Kultura to nie jest, jak to sie na ogol w naszych zinstytucjonalizowanych czasach przypuszcza, masa ksiazek i filmow, obrazow i symfonii, ktorymi administruje zatroskany pan, zwany ministrem. Kultura to takze wyglad i metraz naszych mieszkan, sposob w jaki wspolzyjemy z ludzmi i w jaki przelozony zwraca sie do podwladnego, stosunek do starcow, a take wiele innych rzeczy. A takze co jest chyba najwazniejsze, budowanie wartosci, dla ktorych "warto zyc". W klasycznym rozumieniu, kultura w scislym tego slowa znaczeniu, to "uprawa ducha". Kultura zatem polega na bogactwie zycia wewnetrznego, na pielegnowaniu i rozwijaniu wartosci intelektualnych i moralnych, na harmonii rozumnosci wlasciwej czlowiekowi i wrazliwosci moralno-estetycznej. Naczelne wartosci kulturowe koncentruja sie wokol prawdy, dobra i piekna."

Zbigniew Herbert /interview for "Polityka" weekly in Poland/ from book Zanim zapalisz przeczytaj - Stefan Zajaczkowski

 

[whitecoast]

"Kultura to nie jest, jak to sie na ogol w naszych zinstytucjonalizowanych czasach przypuszcza, masa ksiazek i filmow, obrazow i symfonii, ktorymi administruje zatroskany pan, zwany ministrem. Kultura to takze wyglad i metraz naszych mieszkan, sposob w jaki wspolzyjemy z ludzmi i w jaki przelozony zwraca sie do podwladnego, stosunek do starcow, a take wiele innych rzeczy. A takze co jest chyba najwazniejsze, budowanie wartosci, dla ktorych "warto zyc". W klasycznym rozumieniu, kultura w scislym tego slowa znaczeniu, to "uprawa ducha". Kultura zatem polega na bogactwie zycia wewnetrznego, na pielegnowaniu i rozwijaniu wartosci intelektualnych i moralnych, na harmonii rozumnosci wlasciwej czlowiekowi i wrazliwosci moralno-estetycznej. Naczelne wartosci kulturowe koncentruja sie wokol prawdy, dobra i piekna."

Zbigniew Herbert /interview for "Polityka" weekly in Poland/ from book Zanim zapalisz przeczytaj - Stefan Zajaczkowski

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